Now they're fighting to limit voting. They're the same activists who have pushed the Supreme Court and the federal judiciary to the right. Leonard Leo, former executive vice president of the Federalist Society, has been a key adviser in President Donald Trump's reshaping of the federal courts.
One of the most prominent of the interconnected groups was the Judicial Crisis Network, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit that has been the public relations machine supporting the nomination of conservative, originalist judges to the country's courts. The group has an office in the same building as the Federalist Society.